Assignment: Dealing with Risk, Asymmetric Information, and Incentives
Earlier in the quarter we discussed Southwest Airlines' use of game theory to create new strategy. Continue to research Southwest Airlines or a company of your choice and write a six to eight (6 to 8) page paper in which you:
- Evaluate a company's recent (with in the last year) actions dealing with risk and uncertainty.
- Offer advice for improving risk management.
- Examine an adverse selection problem your company is facing and recommend how it should minimize its negative impact on transactions.
- Determine the ways your company is dealing with the moral hazard problem and suggest best practices used in the industry to deal with it.
- Identify a principal-agent problem in your company and evaluate the tools it uses to align incentives and improve profitability.